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That’s right, we’re having two happy hour events in one month! (After all, it is Spring…) Next Wednesday, we’ll be celebrating the exciting launch of CLICK: Moments When We Knew We Were Feminists edited by our very own Courtney E. Martin and good pal, J. Courtney Sullivan.
The anthology features essays from tons of awesome feminist voices (including Jessica and Miriam!), who “tackle the questions of what makes a feminist, what it means to be one, and how that identity shifts and grows over time–and they emerge with an honest picture of the role of feminism in the lives of young women today.” We’re super excited and proud of our Ray of Light (our nickname for Court) for making this book happen.So come hang with us, check out the book, and tell us your own “click” moment. (And enjoy the outdoor garden and awesome beats at this joint we love oh-so-much!) RSVP to our Facebook event here.Feministing Presents: Click Book Party

In the foreword to her debut novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison describes how she came to write her classic story of an isolated black girl’s disavowal of blackness. She points to the “reclamation of racial beauty” that was so central to the cultural activism of the 1960s as her motivating context, but she notes that this girl’s story is “a unique situation, not a representative one:” in order to explore more dramatically the consequences of internalized racism and sexism, Morrison deprives her protagonist of a supportive family from which she might draw strength. Morrison’s Pecola is vulnerable, bereft, utterly exposed, and suffers tragically for it.

In the foreword to her debut novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison describes how she came to write her classic story of an isolated black girl’s disavowal of blackness. She points to the “reclamation of racial ...

You’ll find many fans of Wonder Woman among the Feministing crew, which is why the last year has been a good one for our collective bookshelf: not one, but two books about the history of the woman with the lasso of truth! Today, we’re giving away copies of one of those welcome additions, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948, by Noah Berlatsky.

If you’ve ever wondered about all the sexy stuff going on in the Wonder Woman comics, you’re not the only one. Berlatsky’s book explores the comic’s depictions of “a universe that was friendly to queer sexualities and lifestyles, from kink to lesbianism to cross-dressing,” and argues that Wonder Woman ...

You’ll find many fans of Wonder Woman among the Feministing crew, which is why the last year has been a good one for our collective bookshelf: not one, but two books about the history ...